Why It Never Happened: Gotham City 

Could you imagine if this created a Disney world type park where it could have gotham, metropolis, star city, and others that would've been amazing, and I think if WB was ahead of Disney I think we could've got that.

A Gotham City and Metropolis could have been amazing, an Arkham Asylum dark ride / haunted house area for Halloween, STAR Labs, with DC exhibits of DC tech for Batman, Flash, Krypton tech...A Hall of Justice, Batcave walk through with his tech from the 1966 series, the books and all the films, a Fortress of Solitude...why can't some billionaire buy the license to do all this?! Imagine Marvel's theme park, not that Superhero Island.. Xavier's school, Avengers Mansion, Daily Bugle, Asgard, Stark Tower with a huge wall of armors... Celebs that play those characters could surprise guests as their schedule permits..stunt shows, themed restaurants and stores... I wish I was a billionaire, all of these Parks and fully immersive ST and SW Parks, and maybe a SG 1 themed island. People would hand over their wallets!

Lex Luthor's villain club....Smallville Soda shop....The fact that these don't exist breaks my heart to no end. Ugh.

Why do all the good concepts get shelved?!

Man, DC Definitely deserves better than what Six Flags has for them. Just think if this were to have happened. It would have been fantastic!

Imagine if the had both marvel and dc that would be insane

While a fully themed, immersive Gotham City hasn't been made, Six Flags Over Texas has an entire section themed to Gotham, with a Batman Clone, Mr Freeze Reverse Blast and a 4D Free Spin to Joker, along with various gotham villan themed flats.

I refuse to believe they aren't still playing around with this concept. They have to know how much money they'd make off of it

God they could’ve competed with Disney so easily if they went through with this! I would truly say that this would be worth visiting for well over four days

Great video. Need to be more mindful of audio levels though. Your voice over is quieter than most everything else and the music after nighttime spectacular section is WAY too loud.

Really interesting video, as I never knew about this project existing, but seems a lot of the plans were kept by Warner Bros, as 10 years later they will make a very similar, although cheaper and smaller version of this complete idea, so it DID see the light of day, and you can still visit it, its a Warner Bros Park (that was built by six flags, but now sold it to Parques Reunidos, thankfully still keeping all the WB copyright stuff) in Madrid, Spain. The area is called DC Super Heroes World and its divided into Metropolis and Gotham City. You enter through Metropolis (theme around the bright art deco of the comics and animated series) and theres various restaurants there, like the Daily Planet restaurant, while the Planet Krypton restaurant is referenced in various images hough the Superman queue. The main Daily Planet building contain the queue for Superman: La Atracción de Acero (Ride of Steel). You enter through the lobby, offices and printing room, but instead of ending on a Spiderman type of ride is a B&M floorless coaster (pretty good I may add). Theres a flatride themed after one of the inventions of Lex Luthor, a top spin you enter through Lex's office building. Passing all this you enter the gates of Gotham City, themed around Batman 89. The first part is a funfair type of theme with carnival games themed around Batman villains. At the right you will find a Mr Freeze swinging chairs and a The riddler S&S 100m shoot and drop tower. At the right of the carnival you go into a small forest that takes you to Arkham Asylum (very well themed around the comics) with a batmobile 89 parked and at the end of the queue a batman B&M clone waits thats surround the arkham asylum building. Infront of the carnival part start the city part of Gotham City, again using Batman 89 as the base, with some Gotham dinings, a joker bumper cars and sweets shop, and the Gotham plaza with the City Hall, were the Batman stunt show takes place. This show originally (and the best version of it) was based around Batman The Animated Series, with Joker and Harley trying to gas the whole city with a bomb and Batman and Robin come to save the day. The music was from the Batman 89 movie while the actor voices were from Batman TAS (the spanish voice actor for the series). At the end of the city you found the Gotham City park, the Monarch Theater and the Wayne Mansion, house to the darkride Batwing (the exact one you talked about in your video). The ride here was called Batman Knight Flight, and you entered the Wayne Mansion, with a batcave preshow with a Batman animatronic, then you ride the simulator, and then you exit the ride through the Monarch Theater. The ride was completely gutted inside, leaving only the outside, suposedly waiting the Sally Justice League darkride you can see at other six flag theme parks.

Watching this just makes me sad. Really hope they revisit this.

As a batman fan this would have been awesome

We have the technology for this why is this not here nowwwwwww

Man that whole Batman/Superman park would've been so cool.

WOW......JUST WOW!!!! This would have elevated Islands of Adventure status as a theme park to near god levels and would have left everyone at Disney speechless! And Yet WB is like 'no we cant have another park showcasing our properties, its not right" and yet 20 some years later they are cool with the whole Harry Potter area. How Pathetic! The water/car show alone would have been jaw dropping to see, it would have been like taking all the best elements from the mediocre Batman Six Flag shows and Water World, combine them together and cranking it up to 100! Screw the plane crash in Water World, I would have loved to see Batman beating the joker, resulting in a giant missile collapsing and blowing up in front of me! But alas there may be good news! As of now Six Flags is looking to acquire new parks and renovate them! Somebody should seriously bring this to there attention!

I miss Batman the escape in Astroworld, the cue line had a Bat cave and props from Batman returns including the suit, batmobile, and the duck from the movie

This one land would possess more theming than the entire universal resort

Oh my God, had this gigantic concept been executed correctly, it would've been one of the best theme park attractions ever made! However, something tells me it would've too hard.

Man, that's a damn shame that this only didn't happen because a company didn't get exactly what they wanted, this would have definitely been a big hit.

you know if you wanted a penguin themed restaurant the should've went with the iceberg lounge

Love videos like these. Well researched, well edited, and not just a slide show with a voice over. Footage was useful and relevant and I hadn't seen some before! Keep up the good work.

Universal should shut down Marvel Super Hero Island and add DC attractions. Think about it this would allow Disney to create some awesome Marvel attractions at Disney World. I love the MSI rides but they are outdated and it would be cool to see some new Marvel rides done by Disney. This could allow universal to make awesome DC rides and make up for the shitty DC six flags coasters.

I think that simulator ride about being in the batwing and facing joker in a ballon was eventually done as a Warner Bros movie World ride. However the concept art doesn’t match the finished product

A real shame it was never fully realized, all those ideas sound awesome, and there would probably be enough material in the DC universe to just make an entire park on that concept, which I would have loved to visit ^^

Six flags Magic mountain actually did this on a smaller scale. its no longer Gotham city but was converted to a Dc universe themed area recently. alot of the original gotham city themed area still exists including the Batman coaster themed to the 1989 batman movie

I saw some concept art on the goddard group website for a Gotham City/Metropolis area that was never used. Seriously that Gotham concept art you showcased is incredible. Such a shame it was never built. Goddard listed the project as Six Flags and the location was listed as Florida. Could these concepts be an amalgamation of several different proposals?

I started to like the idea, but there's a whole lot going on in there.

Considering Disney is Hell bent on buying up the rest of Marvel, it's only a matter of time before Universal has to replace Marvel Superhero Island with something else, since Disney is starting to put Marvel in their parks now. I don't think there's much time left for Marvel Superhero Island. Might come full circle and we can get a DC themed island instead. Wishful thinking but still.

Wow this would have been amazing. Specially now that the batman games have so much pull

I wish they made the Batman area there

RU-vid has yet to figure out what I like-- because I would have clicked on this 3 months ago if I had seen it..... Great job! New subscriber.

This has a bunch of deep DC cuts. I thought it’d just be Batman stuff but no they wanted to roll out the whole DC universe.

The crazy thing is that universal didn't say yes to give 10%, 60%, or even 80% credit to DC, BUT! They said yes to give credit to HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND HARRY POTTER IS ALSO WARNER BROTHERS WHO MADE DC MOVIES/SHOWS!!!! Y UNIVERAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!!!! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😩😤😩😤💔💔💔💔

The question is now, why won’t Six Flags take over concept especially for their premier parks. Also create the Looney Tune land as well.

This sounds like it would have been the greatest theme park EVER! If it had been made, I would have planned my entire 21st birthday around going to Gotham City. On the night of my birthday I would have gone to to Batcave.

I wish DC comics was owned by another company

Gotham City and Metropolis would be great for future Six Flags Park! Here’s my list of attractions, shops and restaurants for both Gotham City and Metropolis! - Gotham City - Attractions and Entertainment - The Batcave Night Club - Joker’s House of Mirrors - Joker’s Fun House Coaster - Batmobile Ride - Batwing Coaster - Joker’s Jinx Coaster - Harley Quinn Crazy Coaster - Harley Quinn Spin-Sanity Ride - Catwoman Whip Ride - Riddler’s Revenge Ride - Arkham Asylum Dark Ride - Gotham Crime Spree Ride - Race with the Joker Simulator - Batman Gotham Action Spectacular - Restaurants - Joker’s Diner - Penguin Eats - Shops - Dark Knight Gifts - Catwoman’s Lair - Icons - Wayne Manor - The Batcave - Wayne Enterprises - Arkham Asylum - Joker’s Funland - Metropolis - Attractions and Entertainment - Justice League 3D Ride - Superman 3D Simulator Ride - Superman Flight Roller Coaster - Green Lantern Ride - Wonder Woman Lasso of Truth Ride - Superhero Stadium - Restaurants - Lex Luthor’s Villains Club - Club Krypton - Metropolis Diner - Daily Planet Press - Smallville Soda Shop - Kent’s Candy - Shops - Braniac’s Bookstore - Icons - The Fortress of Solitude - Daily Planet - STAR Labs - LexCorp - Hall of Justice BONUS!!! - Aquaman’s Atlantis - Attractions and Entertainment - Aquaman: The Ride - Restaurants - Atlantean Deep-Sea Seafood - Shops - Aquaman’s Atlantean Treasure Room

I....................still want Gotham City

they were going all out with this

That's a dam shame when millions of people miss out on a good thing cause board of director's fight over money. Gotham City would have been an awesome idea but even though they had a bunch of great show rides, there was no mentions of any Batman or Joker roller coasters which would have crowned the park. Maybe one day when Six Flags close their doors for good (won't miss them) Universal can buy the rights and move the batman coaster to Universal.

It would have been cool to see how this park changed over the years with the comics and movies- I wonder if it would have done away with Robin after Dark Knight?

Jeez lueeze this land and rides sounds like a hella cool place to be! Too bad this never happened. -also it should’ve been called Hero City, bc of the variety of dc heroes-

This was Amazing! Thank you!

They should took the 8%offer. They would have made billons on batman there are many fans of batman.

This Gotham city area seems awesome but at lest there are various takes on a Dc area in six flags parks

I loved this! I think my only comment would have been to include the other concepts that got translated to Warner Bros related parks - such as the now made Justice League attraction and Dark Knight coaster. Otherwise, A+

This was a fascinating video with an impressive amount of info and visual material! I hope you get more exposure! 👍

Since Disney has Mickey Mouse and Marvel attractions, Universal should make a DC Comics ride and a Looney Tunes area.

Great video very well done thanks for this information I never knew this was a concept for IOA!!

Um why isn’t this Gotham World existing now? If only an irl Bruce Wayne can buy the rights to build a Gotham City and Metropolis amusement park :/ this would be a dream come true.

This sounds amazing. Good ideas don't die; so I hope it becomes a reality, someday.

This would've been so cool if it happened! The problem with the marvel area in universal is it doesn't feel very big at all. There's also only 3 rides I can remember. The amount of immersion and stuff you can go see in this project would've been on a whole other level. Too bad the companies were greedy and couldn't compromise on profits...

Let's not forget around this time Six Flags was trying to build a park near St Augustine, FL about an hour north of Orlando.

Why would they get rid of this? It would have been awesome.

Actually a Gotham City area is happening in Abu Dhabi in the UAE at the WB theme park opening in the summer of 2018

Well, considering how Disney owns Marvel and at this point only licenses some characters to Universal, it is possible that down the line Disney will pull away the license use leaving the Marvel based area stuck. If that happens, Universal could re-strike up a deal with DC/Warner Bros, providing they work things out. To be honest, I can see Disney screwing up the license use with Universal over the Marvel characters since it "could" cause confusion. The character use Universal is allowed to use is based off the comic designs of the characters and not the movie adaption. So when you see Captain American, you see his iconic 50s image. :/

Ugh my inner child is enraged stamping his foot because that all sounds so badass

There is a gotham and metropolis area full of rides and city theming in Parque Warner in Madrid, Spain, including a startours-like bat-wing simulator with Wayne Manor and batcave queue, many restaurants, a comic book store, a Joker ride, and a superman rollercoaster

That.... Would be a fucking sick land to have at Universal Studios

Ive been putting a lot of thought into a Batman ride at Universal for almost a year, then stumble on this video!

I can’t believe they came up with all that. But in my experience of imaginative ideas, ideas are always huge and therefore questionable. Gotham City is an idea that is to huge and a miss

Oh. Oh, yeah. I can see why this never happened. Don't get me wrong, it sounds like the most fricking incredible place that would ever exist. But I've got to be realistic, here- this place would empty the national treasury all in the name of a guy who dresses like a bat. Ten stores, more rides than you can shake a stick at- fun does come at a price. The people over at Universal must have been smoking crack when they dreamed this thing up. I mean, it's a whole frickin' universe and they also plan to make Dr. Seuss land and Looney Tunes land AND Dudley Do-right land AND Popeye land? That's insane? I'd rather just watch the Batman movie- tickets to this place must have been planned at a thousand smackers a pop. They were excited about all the fun they could have, and I get this- but with this thing they went in over their heads.

I honestly didn't know something like this was even being planned (at one time, that is) until I saw this! Thanks! 👍🏻

The Batman theme park of my dreams....Why didn't they do it!

This would’ve been so cool. Very high quality video. I love these kind of videos. You got a new subscriber!

Being a universal passholder and going more than the average person this is a great video! Those rides would have been very cool to see. So glad I found this channel.

There is a Gotham City in Arlington at six flags over Texas that is almost complete. They are updating Harley Quinn spinsanity.

I like the video but the audio level changes were ANNOYING!!!!! Thanks though. Please fix the audio and I'll subscribe.

Capped Crusader’s Crotch 10/10 best line ever

never heard of this before. Very interesting video. Can't wait to watch your other material. keep up the good job.

This made hungry for that awesome Batman cereal from my childhood!

Wow! This is all very expensive and extravagant! Great ideas but there was no money to back this up so that's probably why it was scrapped. But there are a little too many resturants in one land.

I never knew this was a possible IoA idea! I think some of these ideas did trickle down into some six flags parks... and I know a lot of those early concepts look similar to the original idea artwork for Gotham City section in Six Flags Over Georgia.

What a shame this didn't happen. Sounds so cool.

Very interesting video, it's a shame that some of these ideas were never built, because the rides looked pretty good.

Really great video! I just found your channel and I absolutely love your content! I love never built concepts!! I subscribed! I hope to see more concepts and maybe some collaborations with similar content channels

I bet everything at that kryptonian restaurant would have been made with avocado and pesto

Really interesting video! Never knew about any of this. Subbed.

This project sounds amazing...I feel like it’s a shame this never came to be

4:54: Golly, Superman sure can eat! He reminds me of Garfield.

Great video. Got yourself a subscriber! Also, did you have a cold when you recorded this?

There's a whole theme park on the gold Coast in Australia called Warner bros movie world it has a area of dc and looney tunes kids area it's awesome I don't know whether it's anything like this because I only just heard about this land at usf

I wish we would’ve gotten that instead of Marvel Superhero Island.

I would honestly love to see project X in general, the comic strip and dr suess lands exist in islands but I really want to see those other lands too, especially this one. Do you think they might do something with that new park they’re working on?

If Warner Bros Movie World had Gotham City there it would be more awesome

Great video! Audio levels need some work though. The voice overs are much lower than any of the clip volumes

Omg, please make this happen WB 😩😩😩

That would have been "VERY INTERESTING" if that went through.

they were going all out with this dang

I love the idea of Gotham City at Universal Studios

6:57 Lol at the Kiss Cartoon logo

Joker's Wild could've been awesome.

they were going all out with this damn

Correction. Ace chemical plant and Zatanna. That really irked me.

Six Flag’s licensing deal comes up before the end of this decade (2028 I think) and if what I’ve heard is correct, they ain’t doin’ so good post-COVID. When the rights become available again and if Universal is still interested, that all could change.

Don't know why it fails predicting it was due to the sheer scale of the project

Well Gotham City and Metropolis were in some way built at Warner Bros Movie World Madrid. Certainly it's not as inmersive as it was originally thought, but they give it a good try

Awesome Video.

i'm sure it's mentioned elsewhere but it's "Ace Chemical" not "Axis".....its the place where a joker origin took place and he fell into the vat of chemicals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Chemicals